Armorial Porcelain Case Study: The Basildon Park Service

Armorial Porcelain Case Study: The Basildon Park Service

The Basildon Park Service This study will probe these themes by focusing on a single service, which belonged to Francis Sykes in the late eighteenth…

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Sezincote case study: Sezincote: A Brief Description

Sezincote case study: Sezincote: A Brief Description

Sezincote: A Brief Description By the standards of early nineteenth-century country houses, Sezincote was relatively small. Its underlying structure follows the conventions of Georgian villa…

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Caned Furniture Case Study: Material Exchange

Caned Furniture Case Study: Material Exchange

Material Exchange The material used to weave caned panels in furniture is commonly known as ‘cane’ and is from the Rattan Palm Tree which grows…

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Armorial Porcelain Case Study

Armorial Porcelain Case Study

Manly objects? Gendering Armorial Porcelain Wares By Kate Smith Please note that this case study was first published on blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah in June 2014. It was…

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Osterley Case Study: Material Goods - Textiles

Osterley Case Study: Material Goods – Textiles

During Francis Child the elder’s tenure as EIC committee member and later as a Director, the Company was responsible for augmenting the trade in cotton…

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